Jade Vita v0.2.0

This release is mostly about the video pipeline finally behaving, plus a rebuilt catalog UI.

Fixed

• Playback collapsed to ~8 fps on real hardware. Two independent bugs:
  • The hardware H.264 decoder was being destroyed and recreated on every packet-damage
    resync — several times per second on a lossy link. Damage recovery now flushes the queue
    and keeps the decoder alive (begin_resync), and a full rebuild is reserved for genuine
    decode errors.
  • The decoder was initialized to retain 1 reference frame while GFN's encoder was never
    told to match it. Any P-frame referencing an already-dropped picture made sceAvcdecDecode
    consume the data and return no picture. The client now requests
    a=video.maxNumReferenceFrames:4 and initializes the decoder to the same value, driven by
    a single shared constant.
• Failed launches leaked a live session against your NVIDIA account. Since GFN caps
  concurrent sessions, each failure made the next attempt more likely to fail with HTTP 503.
• Touch input was being discarded. egui only counts a press as a click if it lasts under
  0.8s and moves less than 6pt — a thumb tap on the Vita routinely breaks both, so buttons
  silently did nothing. Thresholds retuned for touch.
• Wrong game title on five screens — they indexed the unfiltered game list, so with a
  search or non-default sort active they showed a different title than the one Confirm launched.
• Unbounded cover-art cache and a failed-cover retry loop that re-downloaded at 60 Hz.
• Install failure 0x8010113d — all sce_sys PNGs are now 8-bit indexed and bg0.png
  matches the 840x500 LiveArea spec.

Added

• Live pipeline diagnostics during streaming: frames/s, access units, decode time, queue
  drops, decoder rebuilds, RTP rate, damaged frames, keyframe requests and input-channel state.
• Catalog pagination — up to ~1000 titles, streamed in the background so page one renders
  immediately. Server-side search still reaches the whole catalog.
• Full localization (English / Spanish). Previously only a handful of strings were wired up,
  so most screens stayed in one language regardless of the setting.
• GeForce NOW branding: header logo and a startup animation.
• Game covers framed in a PS Vita cartridge, with the art also used as a dimmed panel backdrop.

Changed

• Stream profile raised to 60 fps at up to 15 Mbps (was 30 fps / 8 Mbps).
• Catalog rebuilt as a title list with a live detail panel — no separate detail screen.
• Cover cache is now a bounded LRU (8 covers, 24 row thumbnails) and is released entirely
  before the video decoder claims its CDRAM.
• Per-keystroke search no longer allocates (~44k allocations per keystroke at 2000 titles → 1).

Notes

• Session length is enforced by NVIDIA per account tier — the client cannot extend it.
• Actual framerate depends on your Wi-Fi. The Vita is 2.4 GHz only; a weak link shows up as
  drop/pli climbing in the diagnostics overlay.
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by NVIDIA.

Jade Vita v0.1.0

Core / Bootstrap

• Bootstrapped the Jade Vita GFN client in Rust/VitaSDK with cargo-vita build/toolchain setup and an SDL2 + egui app shell
• Added NVIDIA device-code authentication with encrypted token storage
• Implemented catalog browsing, search, and cover art loading

Streaming

• Added a real WebRTC peer engine with SDP sanitization, NVST answer generation, and ICE/signaling forwarding
• Implemented Vita hardware H.264 decode worker with direct SDL texture output
• Added Opus audio playback via a dedicated decode thread and SDL queue output
• Restored Bgr565 as the default video path on real hardware, with automatic fallback to Iyuv when Bgr565 is detected as broken
• Reduced input/video queueing latency by draining all queued UDP packets and peer commands per loop iteration, coalescing gamepad input to the latest snapshot, and tightening the compressed video buffer (4 → 2 pending units)
• Moved cover image decoding off the UI thread and pinned peer/audio threads to reduce scheduler jitter

Input

• Added NVST input-channel support (protocol encoding, handshake parsing, per-frame gamepad snapshots, heartbeat packets)
• Forced DTLS client role for NVIDIA ICE-lite sessions to improve WebRTC bring-up reliability

Session Management (CloudMatch)

• Hardened CloudMatch/catalog handling to match NVIDIA/OpenNOW behavior: session retries, session-limit cleanup, long-queue polling with progress tracking, zone/host resolution
• Made CloudMatch polling tolerant of transient 5xx errors
• Added forced re-login (clearing stored tokens) on catalog-load auth expiration
• Tightened session lifecycle to trigger stop on exit and on fatal disconnects, including signaling loss during streaming

UI / UX

• Refreshed the UI with a darker, NVIDIA-inspired theme across catalog, detail, and session screens
• Replaced emoji glyphs with Vita-friendly text labels
• Added a prominent play button on the detail screen
• Fixed catalog navigation so exiting a non-empty search clears the query and triggers a full catalog refresh
• Added queue progress display and confirm-exit controls during session setup/streaming

Localization

• Added a Fluent-based i18n layer with en-US and es-ES resources
• Added a language picker to the catalog UI with localized search/footer/count text
• Fixed scroll-follow jitter in the catalog grid

Diagnostics

• Added pipeline status events/counters for on-screen debugging
• Added SDP snapshot logging for offline troubleshooting

Assets

• Refreshed Vita icon and LiveArea artwork (icon0.png, bg0.png, startup.png)